Nana Dzagnidze unstoppable at Jermuk Women's Chess Grand Prix 2010

Comfortably ahead of the field: GM Nana Dzagnidze

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Grandmaster Nana Dzagnidze is unstoppable at the Jermuk Grand Prix 2010. The Georgian player won the seventh round also beating former world champion Grandmaster Maia Chiburdanidze. Dzagnidze leads in the tournament with an impressive 6.5/7. She has taken her lead to a full 1.5 points now. The fact that Dzagnidze was playing Black didn't matter at all!

Chiburdanidze did everything to pile up an attack down the g-file but Dzagnidze never allowed that attack to materialize and got the full point with a passed pawn rolling down the c-file.

Meanwhile, Yifan drew her game while Kosintseva won hers. Kosintseva once again climbed to the second spot drawing level with Lilit Mkrtchian. Mkrtchian also drew her game with Danielian to remain in the second spot.

Round 7 results

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Danielian - Mkrtchian 1/2-1/2

Cramling - Stefanova 1/2-1/2

Kovanova - Yifan 1/2-1/2

Fierro - Yuhua 1-0

Kosintseva - Yang 1-0

Chiburdanidze - Dzagnidze 0-1

Standings after Round 7

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1. GM Dzagnidze Nana 2478 GEO 6½

2. IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2477 ARM 5

3. GM Kosintseva Tatiana 2534 RUS 5

4. GM Hou Yifan 2589 CHN 4

5. GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2560 BUL 3½

6. IM Danielian Elina 2473 ARM 3½

7. WGM Shen Yang 2452 CHN 3½

8. GM Xu Yuhua 2484 CHN 3

9. GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2514 GEO 2½

10. GM Cramling Pia 2536 SWE 2½

11. WGM Kovanova Baira 2366 RUS 2

12. IM Fierro B. Martha L 2363 ECU 1

Here is the interesting match between Dzagnidze and Chiburdanidze. You can run it in our pgnplayer or watch it in the flashplayer below. You can also see key positions in all the games here.

PGN: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 Bd6 8. O-O O-O 9. b3 e5 10. h3 Qe7 11. Qc2 b5 12. Bd3 Bb7 13. Ng5 h6 14. Nge4 Bc7 15. Ng3 Rfc8 16. Nf5 Qf8 17. f4 exd4 18. Nxd4 a6 19. a4 c5 20. Nf5 c4 21. bxc4 bxc4 22. Be2 Bb6 23. Rb1 Rab8 24. Kh2 Ba5 25. Bf3 Bxf3 26. Rxb8 Rxb8 27. gxf3 g6 28. Rg1 Kh7 29. Nh4 Bxc3 30. Qxc3 Qb4 31. Qd4 Qxa4 32. e4 Qc2+ 33. Ng2 Rb3 34. Be3 Rd3 35. Qa7 Qe2 36. e5 Nh5 37. Qb7 Ng7 38. Re1 Qa2 39. Qe4 Nf8 40. Qb7 c3 41. Bc1 Nfe6 42. Qxf7 Rxf3 43. Re3 Rxe3 44. Bxe3 c2 45. Qd7 Qc4 0-1

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